CHINA-S&T: CHINESE SCIENTISTS ACHIEVE BREAKTHROUGH IN BUILDING MOST POWERFUL LASER ON THE PLANET

The South China Morning Post (July 2) disclosed that a research team in Shanghai has achieved a technological breakthrough that allows them to build the most powerful laser on the planet. It quoted a scientist involved in the project as telling the South China Morning Post on June 29that the leap means they could fire a 100-petawatt shot in about two years. That single pulse would be 10,000 times more powerful than all the electricity grids in the world combined. It said with this development, the Station of Extreme Light could aid research in new materials, drugs and nuclear fusion energy.





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